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[guile] what was wrong with mzscheme?


>Now that an empty guile occupies 1.6 MByte (vs. 600 k for scm), it is
>planned to give guile a byte code interpreter, a ML like module system,
>some kind of object orientation ...

Yep, guile is pretty bloated.  We're going to tackle that eventually,
but it's not at the top of the list.

(flame bait)  I think that a bytecode interpreter, done correctly,
could *reduce* the size of Guile.